Photo credit: James Lutz
ABOUT
Matron Studio is the creative outfit of Eliza Lutz (they/them), a queer disabled artist from New Mexico, USA. Working primarily as a printmaker and fiber artist, their work probes the dissonance between one’s internal and external worlds. By combining traditional print and textile mediums in unconventional ways, their deeply personal and textural narratives trace the ways disability, carework, and time are in endless, fluid conversation with one another. A PhD student in linguistics at the University of New Mexico, Lutz researches how language shapes perceptions of disability, a focus that directly informs their creative practice.
“My art practice is an extension of my disabled body, merging printmaking and fiber art to embody the in/visibility of chronic illness and carework through both process and form. Each medium is labor-intensive and requires infinite patience, mirroring the rhythms of giving and receiving care. Yet these qualities are also at odds with my body, exacerbating symptoms that make the repetition and precision of these disciplines uniquely challenging. It is this tension that shapes my work: embroidered prints and narrative quilts trace the body’s relationship with the built environment and networks of care, connecting the places where internal experience and external perception meet.”
Photo credit: James Lutz
Instagram: @matronstudio
